{"id":266085,"date":"2025-07-15T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266085\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T05:10:11","slug":"chris-horsman-urges-wru-to-act-quickly-on-potential-team-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/266085\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Horsman urges WRU to act quickly on potential team cull"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current professional rugby agreement (PRA) that underpins the Welsh professional game runs out in 2027.<\/p>\n

It was due to be superseded by a new five-year deal agreed by WRU-owned Cardiff and privately-owned Dragons, but has still not been signed by either Ospreys or Scarlets who say “key issues” have not been resolved.<\/p>\n

The four sides are expected to continue to exist in their current form until at least June 2027 but their futures are now uncertain.<\/p>\n

“Potentially they have got a year left of their contract,” Horsman told Radio Wales Drive.<\/a><\/p>\n

“They [the regions] want financial stability. Are you going to buy a season ticket? If you’re a business are you going to sponsor the region, because you don’t know in three, four month’s time, you might be told it’s not going to be there anymore? <\/p>\n

“So there are so many things resting on this decision and again we’ve got to wait.<\/p>\n

“I know it’s not going to be straightforward but we’ve heard that things were going to happen 18 months ago and they haven’t, so I don’t put a lot of stock in it’s going to happen fast. I hope it does for the players’ sake and for Welsh rugby’s sake.<\/p>\n

“One thing I will say is when we were at the Celtic Warriors, it happened over a weekend, pretty much, and as painful as it was at least it was done and then there was a decision made that the players were divvied up, pretty equally between the four regions and the game moved on quickly. <\/p>\n

“I think that’s what’s needed now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The current professional rugby agreement (PRA) that underpins the Welsh professional game runs out in 2027. It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-266085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114855531371868872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}